Trait Theory And Psychoanalytic Theory

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This week’s study takes us to examine the Trait Theory and The Psychoanalytic Theory. Both theories have weaknesses and strengths. Both theories explain personality.
The strengths of the trait theory are it gives the ability to categorized observable behavior. It gives an objectivity criterion for categorizing and measuring behavior. Another words it gives general guidelines to be utilized to categorize and measure behavior. The trait approach has long history of research, traditional and significant research that support the pervious data. Another strength is that the trait theory on only the leader and analysis very thoroughly this component in the leadership process. The trait theory has present researchers with some benchmarks for what…show more content…Allport accepted from the start that there were limitations with his theory. Behavior is influenced by a variety of environmental factors and recognized that traits are not useful for predicting what a single individual will do (Burger, 2015 p. 155). Two approaches were nomothetic approach (assume people can be described along a single dimension according to their level of for example, anxiety or assertiveness) and the idiographic approach (identifies the unique combination of traits that best acconts for the personality of a single…show more content…The Thematic appreciation test was called personology identifies needs as the key elements of personality (Burger, 2015).
One of the best theorist in the world is Sigmund Freud. Freud created the Psychoanalytic Theory. The topographic model contains the conscious which deals with the ideas and thoughts you are aware of. The preconscious is retrievable data. The unconscious is material that cannot be retrieved that easily. Freud also created the concept of id, ego, supper ego. IN the structural model the id is only concerned with bring instant gratification. The ego is the level of personality that considers external reality while meditating between the demand of the id and superego. “Super ego in the contractual model is the part of personality that represents society’s values” (Burger, 2015 p. 44)
Freud also created the Psychosexual states of Development. Adult personality that was influenced by childhood experiences,
Oral Stage till 18 months-mouth, lips, tongue are the erogenous zones that give a baby pleasure.
18 months to 3 years-anal stage. If potty training is not a positive experience many grown people become

or stress. Regression occurs when an individual faces a particularly stressful or tense situation, and instead of handling said scenario in a mature and adult manner, an immature, childlike technique is employed to handle the anxiety. While a psychoanalytic analysis is more difficult given the subconscious nature of the tensions and resulting anxiety, there are several scenes through the movie that indicate Clark Griswold regresses to handle unpleasant and anxiety-inducing situations. In one example

or she will be violent in future. Therefore, the personality discussions are focussed on constant traits (DiCaprio, 1983). In addition, personality can be described as that trait that transpires in a broad diversity of situations (DiCaprio, 1983). A violent individual will be inclined to be so in many diverse conditions.
Many people employ the word personality to recognize the most noticeable trait of a person or to categorize that person's according to his or her social abilities. Psychologists

There are various theories that try to explain why people have certain personalities or why they act different ways. Those theories can be grouped into four prospective groups; psychoanalytic, humanist, social cognitive, and trait prospective. Many test exist to asses a person’s personality and have benefits as well as downfalls (Hockenbury, 2014)..
Many theories have been introduced to the study of personalities. Albert Bandura developed the social cognitive theory. This theory emphasized the social

The study of personality theories of psychology is the section of psychology which studies individuals’ personalities and differences. A theory is a model that helps us predict or explain an outcome; in this case it is personality or behavior. Our personality is what makes us unique or different from other people. Many personality theorists may not feel the same about the development of personality or behavior but, they all are interested in the commonalities among people. How are people “put together

individual motivations of deviance with an emphasis on biological, psychiatric, psychoanalytic, and psychological terms. The emergence of these ideals temporarily displaced social disorganization theory, which stresses a rapidly changing environment as the cause of deviant behavior. Social pathology seeks to explain deviance by evaluating conditions or circumstances, uniquely, affecting the individual. Sociological theories recognize the existense of social conditions that produce deviant behavior and

Human Traits:
If someone asked you to describe the personality of a close friend, what kind of things would you say? A few things that might spring to mind are descriptive terms such as outgoing, kind and even tempered. All of these represent traits. What exactly does this term mean? A trait can be thought of as a relatively stable characteristic that causes individuals to behave in certain ways. The trait approach to personality is one of the major theoretical areas in the study of personality

method used to keep Fowler quiet about the unknown things of the crime and case.
The Psychoanalytic theory best fits the Pamela Smart case for a plethora of reasons. Sigmund Freud receives credit for the creation of this theory, and the psychoanalytic theory is based on that crime causation is from more deep-seated problems. Being a psychopath or sociopath is a major characteristic the psychoanalytic theory. Psychopaths have no sense of guilt, no subjective conscience, and no sense of right and

different personality theories as well as the best known psychology theorists that have developed these theories. Personality consists of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make an individual unique. Numerous theories have been emerged to implicit the different features of personality. The main purpose of some theories is to focus on explaining how personality developed.
Our book was divided into different chapters on various theorists and explained the major theories of personality that were

psychologists still debate and question how personality actually works. However, the theories of personality have been boiled down to just four major theories. Psychoanalytic, humanistic, trait, and social-cognitive. While none of these are perfect, they all have certain distinguishing characteristics, advantages, and drawbacks, that differ them from each other.
The first personality theory covered is psychoanalytic, or psychodynamic. The perspective of psychoanalysis is one of the more famous and

There are many types of development theories, Psychoanalytic theories, Cognitive theories, Behavioral and social cognitive theories, ethological theories and ecological theories. Development is how a person changes throughout their life, from the time they are conceived to the time they die. Everyone processes and interprets things and information differently. After researching these various developmental theories ecological theories best describe development. Urie Bronfenbrenner is the researcher